Building upon our ongoing commitment to support impactful applications of Llama, Meta are excited to announce the Llama 3.1 Impact Grants.

As with the first iteration of the Llama Impact Grants, we are seeking proposals from all eligible organizations with an innovative idea for how to use Llama 3.1 to address challenges in their communities. However, applications meeting one or more of the following criteria will receive special consideration:

• Showcase the newest capabilities of Llama 3.1 (e.g., multilinguality)
• Lower barriers for other developers to build with Llama (e.g., enhance features such as evaluation, data preparation, or prompt engineering)
• Address one of the following topics:

• Economic development
  • E.g., future of work; scaled business solutions; support for small businesses
• Science and innovation
  • E.g., climate, health, accessibility, agriculture; infrastructure support
• Public services
  • E.g., delivery of services; translation of government resources; solving challenges for policymakers; resource allocation; migration
• Education and skills development
  • E.g., improve learning outcomes; retraining; lifelong learning

This program is open to any business, non-profit, academic institution, and research institution with an idea for how to apply Llama 3.1 to issues related to social impact.

They have a particular interest in applications demonstrating the utility of Llama 3.1’s newest capabilities, lowering barriers for other developers to build with Llama, or addressing: economic development; science and innovation; public services; education and skills development. For specific questions regarding country eligibility and definitions of what qualify as eligible organization type, please refer to the program’s Terms & Conditions.

• Email: LlamaImpact@meta.com